$Id: README.usage,v 1.6 2001/01/02 09:59:31 michaels Exp $

The socks package can be used in two ways.

Dynamically

	The simplest way to add socks support to an already
(dynamically) complied application is to use the LD_PRELOAD facility
to replace the standard library functions with socksified ones.  The
libdsocks library is provided for this purpose.  See the
README.socksify file for more information.  This will probably only
work with non-setuid applications since LD_PRELOAD is usually ignored
otherwise.  If setting LD_PRELOAD is not possible, compilation is
another possibility.

	If the application can be compiled dynamically socks support
can be added explicitly by linking with libdsocks (usually done by adding
'-ldsocks').  This will automagically give the application socks
support without making any code changes.

Static Compilation

	If the source code for an application is available it can be
changed to use socks, even if it is not linked dynamically.
Several systemcalls must be changed to use the socksified versions
instead of the standard ones.  The application is then linked with
the libsocks library in the distribution (-lsocks, not -ldsocks).

These system calls can be found in the socks library:

Rconnect
Rbind 
Rgetsockname
Rgetpeername
Raccept
Rrresvport
Rbindresvport
Rgethostbyname
Rgethostbyname2
Rsendto
Rrecvfrom
Rrecvfrom
Rwrite
Rwritev
Rsend
Rsendmsg
Rread
Rreadv
Rrecv
Rrecvmsg

These calls currently does nothing and are only provided for
compatibility with programs which use them.

Rlisten
Rselect
SOCKSinit

The source can either be modified directly, or by using defines to
change the source during compilation.

Either add this line to the command compilation line (e.g. CFLAGS):

-Dconnect=Rconnect -Dbind=Rbind -Dgetsockname=Rgetsockname -Dgetpeername=Rgetpeername -Daccept=Raccept -Drresvport=Rrresvport -Dbindresvport=Rbindresvport -Dgethostbyname=Rgethostbyname -Dgethostbyname2=Rgethostbyname2 -Dsendto=Rsendto -Drecvfrom=Rrecvfrom -Drecvfrom=Rrecvfrom -Dwrite=Rwrite -Dwritev=Rwritev -Dsend=Rsend -Dsendmsg=Rsendmsg -Dread=Rread -Dreadv=Rreadv -Drecv=Rrecv -Drecvmsg=Rrecvmsg

or add "include <socks.h>" to every C file in the program you are
compiling.



Libraries

	In total there are three libraries distributed with this package:

 libsocks.so  - standard shared library, contains Rfoo type functions.

 libsocks.a   - static version of the above.

 libdsocks.so - shared library which does "on the fly" socksification.